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by fullshark 1263 days ago
Do you watch baseball for the umps? To see them show their 99percentile talent at calling balls/strikes?
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Human error just makes the game more interesting and less predictable.
Ridiculous. You're conflating human error as part of the skills in the game itself (failing to catch a pop fly) versus human error that results in inconsistencies of rules (marking a pitch as a strike when it is quantifiably outside the strike zone). One of these makes the game more interesting, the other one makes it more frustrating.

Can you guess which one is which, or should I call for a ref?

The solution is to win by a wider margin. Or schmooze the refs!
Human error in judgment doesn't.
Yeah, it does.

F1 also has their disputes with rulings by their committee. All part of the game.

Joe West thinks you do!